The first review of War and Conflict in the Early Modern World, 1500-1700 (Polity, 2016) has now been published on H-Net Reviews.

I am pleased to see that Professor Frederic J. Baumgartner (Virginia Tech) has reviewed the book for the H-Diplo list on H-Net. Professor Baumgartner is a fellow early modern French historian, who has published on early modern French bishops, the French Wars of Religion, and declarations of war. I respect his work and welcome his review of my book.

Greg Bereiter (Ph.D. in History, Northern Illinois University) is featured in the American Historical Association’s Member Spotlight.

Greg wrote his doctoral dissertation with me on clerical militancy during the French Wars of Religion. I was honored to work with Greg during his graduate studies at Northern Illinois University and his doctoral research in France.

Greg is currently working as Historian at the U.S. Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC.

Flooding is part of life in the Netherlands. But, at least since the sixteenth century, humans have deliberately instigated floods as a military strategy.

During the Dutch Revolt (1566-1648), dykes were periodically opened in order to flood portions of the countryside in the Netherlands as a defensive measure against advancing armies. Strong religious motivations shaped the civil conflict in the Netherlands, as the Spanish Army of Flanders and local Catholics attempted to suppress a rebellion by militant Dutch Calvinists. One of the most famous incidents of deliberate flooding occurred in 1584, when Dutch forces under William of Orange destroyed seawalls in an attempt to protect the city of Antwerp, which was besieged by Spanish troops.

Adriaan de Kraker (Assistant Professor, VU University Amsterdam) has been researching deliberate flooding from 1500 to the present. He argues that “the plan got completely out of hand. … It came at the expense of…

I am pleased to report that my new book, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016), has been released in the United States.

Here is the brief book description (blurb):

In this latest addition to the acclaimed War & Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modern period. Sandberg traces the innovative military technologies and practices that emerged around 1500, then explores the different forms of warfare—including dynastic war, religious warfare, raiding warfare, and peasant revolt— that shaped conflicts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He explains how significant social, economic, and political developments transformed warfare on land and at sea at a time of global imperialism and growing mercantilism, forcing states and military systems to respond to rapidly changing situations.

Engaging and insightful, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World will interest scholars and students of world history, the early modern period, and the broader relationship between war and society.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Innovative Warfare, 1450s-1520s

Chapter 2: Maritime Conflict and Colonial Expansion, 1490s-1530s

Chapter 3: Schism and Social Conflict, 1510s-1560s

Chapter 4: Dynastic War and State Development, 1520s-1580s

Chapter 5: Noble Violence, 1520s-1620s

Chapter 6: Sectarian Violence and Religious Warfare, 1560s-1640s

Chapter 7: Raiding Warfare, 1580s-1640s

Chapter 8: Peasant Revolt and Rural Conflict, 1590s-1650s

Chapter 9: Ethnic Conflict, 1620s-1660s

Chapter 10: Rebellion and Civil Warfare, 1630s-1660s

Chapter 11: Mercantile War, 1630s-1690s

Chapter 12: Territorial War, 1660s-1700s

Conclusion: c. 1700

Notes

War and Conflict in the Early Modern World is available at Wiley (the U.S. distributor), on Amazon, and at other booksellers online. If you would like to order the book from your local bookstore, use ISBN: 978-0-7456-4603-9 (paperback) or ISBN: 978-0-7456-4602-2 (hardcover).

The HistoryMakers seeks to hire a full time Oral History Researcher to complete in-depth research for its video oral history interviews across a wide variety of occupations and fields (i.e. STEM, law, art, education, music, etc.). The researcher/writer will be responsible for:

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The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library is hosting a Spanish Paleography Workshop this fall. The workshop, led by Carla Rahn Phillips offers faculty and graduate students an introduction to reading Spanish-language manuscripts of the early modern period.

Here is the Newberry Library’s announcement:

Friday, September 30, 2016 – Saturday, October 1, 2016

9 am to 5 pm Friday; 9 am to 3:30 pm Saturday

Room 101

Directed by Carla Rahn Phillips, Emerita, University of Minnesota

Application deadline August 1

Center for Renaissance Studies Programs

Mellon Summer Institutes in Vernacular Paleography

This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to reading and transcribing documents written in Spain and Spanish America from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Although the course sessions will be taught primarily in English, all of the documents will be in Spanish.

Eligibility: The institute will enroll 18 participants by competitive application. First consideration will be given to advanced PhD students and junior faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, but applications are also accepted from advanced PhD students and junior faculty at Canadian institutions, from professional staff of U.S. and Canadian libraries and museums, and from qualified independent scholars.

Faculty and graduate students of Center for Renaissance Studies consortium institutions may be eligible to apply for travel funds to attend CRS programs or to do research at the Newberry. Each member university sets its own policies and deadlines; contact your Representative Council member in advance for details.